Tulitsa (volleyball club)

• In the championships of Russia among the teams of the Super League, the best result is 8th place ( 2006 ).
• Bronze medalist of the Cup of Russia 2002 .

Tula Volleyball in 1957-1975

Volleyball became widespread in Tula in the 30s of the XX century. After the Great Patriotic War, this game in the region became even more popular and the Tula teams were considered one of the strongest in the RSFSR . In 1957, the Trud women's team won the title of champion of the RSFSR. In 1967, Trud, speaking in the republican competitions, was headed by coach Sergey Lazarevich Belich, and two years later, the Plastic plant from the city of Uzlovaya in the Tula Region took over the team under its protection. The team was also renamed by its sponsor.

In 1971, “Plastic” (Tula) made its debut in the USSR Championship , taking 7th place in the second most important division. In 1972, “Plastic”, under the guidance of coach S. L. Belich, became the third in the 1st group and entered the big league, where he debuted in 1973. In their first match, among the strongest female volleyball teams of the USSR (January 9, 1973), the Tula won the Dynamo Krasnodar 3: 1, and then put Dynamo Moscow on the verge of defeat, leading the match 2-0, but the victory did not kept, losing 2: 3. In the next 20 matches, Plastic won only twice, taking the 11th (penultimate) place in the end, and in the subsequent series of transitional matches held before two victories of one of the rivals, lost to the Sverdlovsk Uralochka led by Nikolai Karpol . In the first duel, the Tulechs won 3-1, and then twice lost with the same score 2-3 and left the Major League. In the next two seasons, “Plastic” claimed to be one of the strongest teams in the USSR, but in 1974 it took only 3rd place in the 1st group, and in 1975 - 8th in the transition tournament of the teams of the highest league and 1st group . On this the story of "Plastic" ended ^[1] .

1991-2002

In 1991-1992, the Tula team "Petrel" took part in the All-Russian qualifying tournaments for entering the first league (unofficial name is the second league of the USSR championship), and in the season 1992-1993 made its debut in the Russian championship , taking 3rd place in the first league (the third most important division) and having received a promotion in the class. Since 1993, the Tula TST team (as it was called by the new sponsor - Tulastroitrans) acted in the Premier League “B”

In 1995, the Tula team received a new sponsor - Tulamashzavod joint-stock company. The team became known as “Tulitsa-Tulamash” ( Tulitsa is a river flowing along Tula and along which the city was probably named). Since 1996, Tula volleyball players began to play in the major league of the championship of Russia, but until 2001 they did not rise above 5th place in it. In the 2001-2002 season, already in the Premier League “A” (as the second most important division came to be called), the long-awaited success came to the Tula players. Having shown outstanding results (32 victories in 32 matches), Tulitsa-Tulamash entered the super league of the national women's volleyball, repeating the success of compatriots from Plastik 30 years ago.

2002-2009. Ups and downs

In its debut season in the group of the strongest Russian clubs “Tulitsa-Tulamash” under the guidance of coach Yuri Pastukhov (he also worked as Belich’s assistant in “Plastik”) took 9th place among 13 teams. In the next season, the leadership of VK “Tulitsa” in order to show a higher result seriously updated the team, inviting immediately 7 new volleyball players, leaving 5 athletes from the previous composition. Among the invited were the Romanian binder Trombitas, Belarusian Shevchenko, as well as a number of famous Russian players. The local specialist A. Smirnov was appointed to the post of mentor. He previously proved to be quite good in working with the men's youth national team of Russia. A well-equipped team unexpectedly failed the season, taking only the 12th (penultimate) place and was eliminated in the Premier League “A”. Despite this failure, two Tulitsa volleyball players - the central blocker Irina Sukhova and libero Natalya Gladysheva - received an invitation to the Russian national team and took part in the European Championship qualifying tournament .

Stay in the major league “A” for “Tulitsa-Tulamash” lasted only a season ( 2004/2005 ). Having taken 3rd place in the final stage of the second most important division, Tula volleyball players regained their place in the super league due to the fact that the Khabarovsk Aurum, which was the farm team Samorodka, who had become the second in the final, refused to be promoted.

Before the start of the Russian Championship 2005/2006 , Tulitsa (the name was shortened due to the discontinued cooperation with Tulamashzavod) made two high-profile acquisitions. The team was joined by two Polish volleyball players, European champions in the national team of Poland Malgozhat Nemchik-Volsk and Agat Karchmarzhevsk. The rest of the composition has not undergone major changes except for the head coach, who was appointed Anatoly Ovsyannikov. At the preliminary stage, Tulitsa became the 7th, and in the quarterfinals the play-ff lost to Zarechye-Odintsovo, Moscow Region , 1-2 (1: 3, 3: 2, 0: 3). In the tournament for 5-8 places, the Tula team lost three times in three matches and ended the season in 8th position.

In the 2006/2007 season, “Tulitsu” suffered a serious crisis due to the termination of sponsorship funding. Having gained only 5 victories in 25 matches for the entire season, the team took the last 12th place. By the decision of the Executive Committee of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation, she, as well as becoming the 11th Uralochka, was kept a place in the Super League, but the team left without funds was forced to drop into the Major League “B”, where its farm team played. In 2009, the Tulitsa volleyball club announced the cessation of activity and the dissolution of the team.

Rebirth

In 2012–2014, Novomoskovochka from Novomoskovsk in the Tula Region played in the Premier League “B” of the Russian Championship, and in 2014–2016, the ShVSM DSP from Tula. In July 2016, it was announced the revival of the Tulitsa team and its inclusion in the Premier League B of the Russian Championship ^[2] . The head coach was appointed former team volleyball player, master of sports Ekaterina Leonova ^[3] . Experienced Alina Elizarova, Anastasia Schurinova (Konovalova), Victoria Rastikus, Elena Peshekhonova (Boyarkina) , Tatyana Rytenko (Belkova), Zhuditt-Flores Yalova expressed their desire to play for the team. During the championship , Tatyana Shamanaeva and Daria Nemova joined Tulitsa. With such a composition, the Tula team did not encounter problems with solving the problem of reaching the Premier League “A”, having gained 27 victories in 30 matches over the season.

In Tula, honored masters of sports began their volleyball classes:

• Irina Kirillova ( Olympic champion 1988 , world champion 1990 , European champion 1989 , 5-time champion of the USSR as part of Uralochka );
• Elena Chesnokova-Andreiuk ( Olympic champion 1980 , European champion 1979 , 7-time champion of the USSR as part of Uralochka);
• Tatyana Kosheleva ( world champion 2010 , two- time European champion , two - time champion of Russia ).

The president is Nikolai Terekhov, the director is Valery of Moscow.

The structure of the club includes women's teams “Tulitsa” (major league “A”) and “Tulitsa” -2 (major league “B”).

Since 2017, Tulitsa has been playing home games in the arena of the Arsenal Central Stadium. Address in Tula: Lenin Avenue, 87 Bldg. 7.

The team’s reserve hall is the New Generation universal sports complex. Address in Tula: Metallurgov street, 22a.

Transitions

• They came : S. Sukhoverkhova ( Dynamo-Metar ), A. Lozyuk ( Sakhalin ), B. Byard ( Dynamo Krasnodar ), A. Podskalnaya ( Proton ), J. Kaskova (YUZGU -Atom ) ), A. Grechanaya (“ Samrau-UGNTU ”), D. Fedoseyev (“ Tyumen-Tyumen State University ”).
• Gone : N. Frolova, O. Ivanova, L. Flores, A. Schurinova, V. Kozlova.

Composition

• Head coach - Alexander Perepelkin.
• The head coach is Anastasia Terekhova.
• Trainer - Judith-Flores Yalovaya.
• The statistician is Mikhail Tretyakov.

• Club official website
• Official group VKontakte
• The club’s official account on Instagram

• Volleyball. Encyclopedia / Comp. V.L. Sviridov, O.S. Chekhov . Tomsk Company "Yanson". 2001 year
• Almanacs of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation